Residence Hall Emergency Maintenance

Outage category: 
Wireless Network
Location: 
All Residence Halls
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
11/17/2021 8:00 am

A percentage of users were unable to authenticate on Wi-FI which meant they unable to connect to either 5G or 3G.

Initial symptoms: 

Some users unable to authenticate to Wi-FI.  User issues were spread out through all dorms.  Outage/issues was not by building.

Duration: 
11/16/2021 8:59 pm - 11/17/2021 8:00 am
Impact to Mason: 

Users unable to connect to Wi-FI

Affected Services: 
Network Access
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

Radius messages not being forwarded from WLC to RxG

Resolution: 

upgrade wireless network controller/Cisco TAC patch

Prevention: 

Review and monitor wireless upgrade.  Upgrade was successful.

Other preventative measures:

Upgrade node capacity

VLAN Wired segmentation by building

Redundant circuit installed and tested for failover

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
Apogee